Improved washing-machine



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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE..

JOSEPH R. GILL AND vVILLIAM E, PALMER, OF AL'ION, ILLINOIS.

IMPRovED WASHING-MACHINE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 34,486, dated February 25, 1862.

To all whom t may concern:V y

Be it known that we, JOSEPH R. GILL and WILLIAM E. PALMER, both of Alton, in the county of Madison and State of Illinois, have invented a new and Improved Clothes-Washing Machine; and we do hereby declare that the followingis a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in which Figure l is a side sectional view of our invention, taken in the line @c x, Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a plan or top view of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the two figures.

The object of this invention is to obtain a clotheswashing machine of simple construction which will operate in al very efficient manner and be capable of being manipulated in the most advantageous way, so that the operator while working the machine may have full command over the clothes and adjust them as desired while they are being acted upon.

To enable those skilled in the art to fully understand and construct our invention, we

board D. This pressure-board is corrugated or fluted longitudinally, and it extends the whole width of the suds-box A, its lower corrugations projecting rather farther outward than its upper ones. The bottom a of the suds-box forms a portion of a cylinder, of

which .the pivots b b are at its center. The board D, therefore, in moving or swinging back and forth will keep at an equal distance from the bottom a, just clearing its surface. This will be fully understood by referring to Fig. l.

E is a stationary pressure-board, which is secured in the suds-box A, near its front end. The pressure-board E is formed of a series of slats c, suitable spaces being allowed between them to admit of the suds passing through, as shown in Fig. 2. The board E is slightly inclined, its upper Yend leaning a trifle toa ward the back end of the .'suds-box, as shown clearly in Fig. l.

At the front end d of the suds-box A, which is somewhat inclined, there is placed an ordi-i nary hand rubbing or wash board F. This rubbing-board may be constructed in the usual way, it being provided with horizontal parallel corrugations e. I

G is a toggle, which is formed of two levers f g, connected by a joint h. The lever gis attached at its outer end to the back end of the suds-boxA by a joint t', and the front end of the lever f is forked and connected by joints jj to the lower parts of the pendants O O. On the back end of the suds-box A there is secured by hinges Ze lc a bar H, to which two handles I J are attached. ,One of these handles I has an oblique position and projects over to the right side of the box from the left-hand end of the bar H; but the The operation is as follows: The box A is supplied with a requisite quantity of suds, f

and the clothes to be washed are placed in the box A between the pressure-boards D E. The

operator stands at the front end of the box A and works the handle J up and down, and thereby moves the board D forward and back.- ward with the box A, the clothes being comn pressed between the boards D E at each for ward movement of the former, and during theV backward movement of D the clothes, owing to the inclined position of E and the projecta ing lower part of D, will fall and partially .l

turn, so that a fresh surface of clotheswill be presented to the action vof D each time it moves forward. The water or` suds, as the clothes are compressed, passes freely through E, and the dirt therefore is effectually washed from the texture of the clothes, and in case the clothes require to be turned or adjusted in the box A during the operation ofy washing it can be readily done with the left hand of the operator, the right hand being employed in working handle J. In case any portion of the clothes require rubbing by hand after being acted upon by the machine,

the Work may be readily done on the Washboard F.

The two toggles G I admit of the swinging pressure-board D being operated with great facility, and lalso in connection With the handle J, arranged as shown, to admit of Athe operator, While actuating the board D, standing at the front end of the box A, near the clothes, so that the latter may be adjusted from time to time during the operation ofthe machine.

The handle I is designed for an assistant 'operator When required. 

